[olug] Lunch venues?

[thelarsons3 at cox.net]

> From: "Jeff Hinrichs" <JeffH at delasco.com>
> 
> I am confused a bit too at this point.  The current official  location
> is California Tacos.  However, Tim Larson suggested moving it to CiCi's
> pizza on Saddle Creek.   Sean piped up then concerned about making it
> from Downtown to Saddle Creek utilizing public transportation
> considering the amount of time he has for lunch on a work day.
> 
> Which leads me to believe, that unless there is overwhelming support for
> the change, it will remain at Cali Taco's until we "officially" submit a
> change.  I'm not against CiCi's, in fact a change of venue would be
> good, but logistically it might be less than optimal given the short
> notice and no "official blessing" (info listed on the olug web) for this
> lunch.
> 
> How about:  We officially request a nomination/voting process for a new
> east side OLUG lunch location?  We can start the nomination process off
> straight away and close nominations next Friday (7/22)  then at the
> close of nominations a list will be made, voted on (type of vote to be
> decided prior to nominations) and then a winner selected at least a full
> week before the next lunch gathering?

We did that.  <http://lists.olug.org/pipermail/olug/2005-April/016466.html>  In the following weeks I think there was only one or two nominations.  Shortly thereafter the west lunch location moved from China Buffet to Cici's with only a concensus of the frequent attendees, and was noted on the website within a month.  <http://lists.olug.org/pipermail/olug/2005-May/016576.html>  Apparently we prefer a less formal process.  

Since a couple people had chimed in (fairly quickly) that Cici's sounded good for downtown too, I'd assumed that's where we'd be.  My home computer has been offline for some time, and I've only been checking webmail occasionally, so I wasn't aware of conflicts.  I guess I didn't figure there'd be a problem since it's only about 10 blocks farther west than Cali Taco.

I'm open to having a formal vote process again before next month.  But we do need to resolve what's happening tomorrow.

Tim

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Tim & Alethea